<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Yoshiki,<br><br></div><div>Thanks for inquiring about Smallapack.<br><br></div>This problem has been solved in 2011 as the post tells.<br></div>Moreover, it was about alignment of squeak objects that was on multiple of 4 on SqueakV3 memory.<br></div>Spur is 8 byte aligned, so the problem would have also vanished without any patch for those being patient :)<br><br></div><div>For the 15 arguments limit, Smallapack comes with it's own compiler, so it's a non issue.<br></div><div>Maybe I should make the documentation more clear on <a href="https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/smallapack/wiki/SmallapackSqueak">https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/smallapack/wiki/SmallapackSqueak</a> ?<br></div><div><br></div>Unfortunately, there's no Sparse Matrix representation in Lapack.<br></div>If you know of a good package for that, it could be integrated.<br><br></div><div>If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask.<br><br></div>cheers<br><br></div>Nicolas<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-29 0:22 GMT+02:00 Yoshiki Ohshima <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org" target="_blank">Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I am trying to do a bit of linear algebra stuff that involves to solve<br>
a sparse 2D matrix (for a variation of doing least square fit).<br>
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There was a message from Nicolas:<br>
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Is this where it stands today, too? It looks like that arg count<br>
problem is still there in 5.0, but is it in a way non-issue as it is<br>
still FFI based?<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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